Professor Margaret Vickers

• Biography
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Awards/Honours
• Grants/Current Projects
• Selected Publications
• Engagement Interests
• Contact Details

Biography

Margaret H. Vickers is a Professor and author of over 100 international refereed publications including two highly acclaimed internationally published research books. Professor Vickers is Editor-in-Chief of the international Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, and an editorial board member of a further six international Editorial Boards, the recipient of 3 ARC linkage grants, principal supervisor of the first Higher Doctorate awarded at UWS, and both successful supervisor and international examiner of Doctoral, Master’s Honours, and Bachelor’s Honours research degrees. Professor Vickers was the first woman awarded a PhD from the former Department of Management and Administration at UWS, Nepean.

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Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

Chronic Illness
Disability Work
Workers Employment
Health
Wellness
Bullying
Carers
Parents
Redundancy
Downsizing
Emotions
Mental Illness

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Awards/Honours

• Principal Supervisor for first Higher Doctorate awarded at UWS
• Nepean Postgraduate Award Scholarship (full stipend), Feb 1995 - Feb 1997

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Grants/Current Projects

2008
Perspectives of employers on the disabled workforce: Encouraging an Australian study
Funding: IRIS & UWS Internal Research Grant.
Research Team: Margaret Vickers, Partner DePaul University, Chicago Brigida Hernandez, Katherine McDonald

2006-2008
Surviving and thriving in the face of workplace adversity: An intervention to develop personal resilience in nurses and midwives
Funding: ARC Linkage Grant.
Research Team: Debra Jackson, Margaret Vickers, Lesley Wilkes, Partner Nepean Hospital SWAHS M Clarke and M Drum.

2005-2007
Working parents of children with chronic illness: A national study
Funding: ARC Linkage Grant.
Research Team: Margaret H Vickers, Lesley Wilkes, Partner Children's Hospital Education and Research Institute (CHERI) Dr Belinda Barton.

2005
Bullying in the workplace: A survey of nurses in the state of Florida, USA
Funding: IRIS & USW Internal Resarch Grant.
Research Team: Margaret H. Vickers; Lesley Wilkes, Debra Jackson, Partner University of Central Florida I Eileen Hamby, Donna Malvey.

2004-2006
Living and working with MS: Why people with MS are leaving work
Funding: Trauma Research International Pty Ltd.

2003-2006
Bullying in the workplace: A study of Australian nurses
Funding: ARC Linkage Grant. 
Research Team: Margaret H. Vickers, Debra Jackson, Lesley Wilkes, Partners SWAHS, NRAHS Elizabeth Clarke, Robyn D Weller, B Cansdell.

2004
Memoirs of the disposed of: Senior executives journey through redundancy & living and working with multiple sclerosis (MS): Experiences from the workplace
Funding: UWS Professional Development Program.

2003
Working parents of children with chronic illness/disability: Working, caring and surviving
Funding: UWS Partnerships Grant.
Research Team: Margaret H. Vickers, Partners CHERI and Trauma Research International Pty Ltd.

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Selected Publications

Books

Vickers, M.H. (2006). Working and caring for a child with chronic illness: Disconnected and doing it all. London: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN: 1-4039-9767-5

Book Chapters

Parris, M., & Vickers, M. (2009). Provision of outplacement services during redundancy: Lessons from Australian executives. In Robert C. Preziosi (Ed.). The 2009 Pfeiffer Management Development Annual (pp. 155-168). San Francisco: Pfeiffer (An Imprint of Wiley).

Vickers, M. H. (2009). Why people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are really leaving work: An exemplar case study with lessons for managers. In Robert C. Preziosi (Ed.). The 2009 Pfeiffer Management Development Annual (pp. 139-154). San Francisco: Pfeiffer (An Imprint of Wiley).

Vickers, M.H. (2007). Violence. In S. Clegg, & J.R. Bailey (Eds.), International encyclopedia of organization studies. Sage Reference Books. London and New York: Sage.

Vickers, M.H. (2007), Workplace Incivility. In S. Clegg, & J.R. Bailey (Eds.), International encyclopedia of organization studies. Sage Reference Books. London and New York: Sage.

Vickers, M.H., & Parris, M.A. (2006). “Telling it how it really is?": Life in organisations revealed using Heideggerian phenomenology. In The 2006 Pfeiffer Annual Human Resource Management: Current practices, insights and perspectives (pp. 119-139), San Francisco: Pfeiffer-Wiley.

Perrone, J., & Vickers, M.H. (2006). Case Study 1: The upside of anger, reproduced from 'Emotions as strategic game in a hostile workplace: An exemplar case study', in S. Robbins, & T. Judge (Eds.), Organizational behaviour (12^th ed., pp. 290-291). Wheaton, Illinois: Prentice Hall Business Publishing.

Refereed Journal Articles

Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L., & Jackson, D. (2010). A typology of bullying behaviours: The experiences of Australian nurses. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 19(15-16), 2319-2328.

Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Jackson, D., & Wilkes, L. (2010). Bullying as circuits of power: An Australian nursing perspective. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 32(1), 25-47.

Hutchinson, M., Wilkes, L., Jackson, D., & Vickers, M. (2010). Integrating individual, work group and organizational factors: testing a multidimensional model of bullying in the nursing workplace. Journal of Nursing Management, 18(2), 173-181.

Rhodes, C., Pullen, A., Vickers, M., Clegg, S.R., & Pitsis, A. (2010). Violence and workplace bullying: What are an organization's ethical responsibilities? Administrative Theory & Praxis, 32(1), 96-115.

Vickers, M. (2010). Symposium: Bullying, mobbing, and violence in organizational life. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 32(1), 7-24.

Vickers, M. (2009). Bullying, disaility and work: A case study of workplace bullying. Qualitative Research in Organisations and Management 4(3), 255-272.

Vickers, M. (2009). From the Editor-in-Chief's Desk: Job loss as a status passage for workers during recession- Advocating a "compassionate turn". Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 21(3), 213-229.

Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L., & Jackson, D. (2009). The worse you behave, the more you seem, to be rewarded: Bullying in nursing as organizational corruption. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal (ERRJ), 21(3), 213-229.

Vickers, M. (2009). From the Editor-in-Chief’s Desk: Better than sex? hooked on work - at the toxic workplace. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 20(2), 73-76.

Vickers, M. (2009). From the Editor-in-Chief’s Desk: The workplace during recession reminding us of employee rights and responsibilities. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 20(1), 3-6.

Vickers, M. (2009). Life and Work with Multiple Sclerosis (MS): The Role of Unseen Experiential Phenomena on Unreliable Bodies and Uncertain Lives. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 17(1), 7-21.

Vickers, M. (2009). Journeys into Grief: Exploring Redundancy for a New Understanding of Workplace Grief. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 14(3), 401-419.

Vickers, M.H. (2008). Why people with MS are really leaving work: From a Clayton's choice to an ugly passage. The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 4(4), 43-57.

Parris, M., Vickers, M.H., & Wilkes, L. (2008). Friendships under strain: The work-personal life integration of middle managers. Community, Work & Family, 11(4), 405-418.

Parris, M., Vickers, M. H., & Wilkes, L. (2008). Caught in the middle: Organisational impediments to middle managers' work life balance. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 20(2), 101-117.

Hutchinson, M., Wilkes, L., Vickers, M.H., & Jackson, D. (2008). The development and validation of a bullying inventory for the nursing workplace. Nurse Researcher, 15(2), 19-29.

George, A., Vickers, M.H., Wilkes, L., & Barton, B. (2008). Working and caring for a child with chronic illness: Challenges in maintaining employment. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 20(3), 165-176.

Hutchinson, M., Jackson, D., Wilkes, L., & Vickers, M. H. (2008). A new model of bullying in the nursing workplace: Organisational characteristics as critical antecedents. Advances in Nursing Science, 31(2), 60-71.

Vickers, M.H. (2008). From the Editor-in-Chief's desk: Employers and employees thinking about trust. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 20(4), 223-226.

Vickers, M.H. (2008). From the Editor-in-Chief's desk: Difference, diversity, and discrimination at work - revisiting stigma. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 20(3), 153-156.

George, A., Vickers, M.H., Wilkes, L., & Barton B. (2008). Working and caring for a child with chronic illness: Barriers in achieving work-family balance. Journal of Management & Organisation, 14(1), 59-72.

Vickers, M.H. (2007). Reflections from an action researcher: Why we do what we do. International Journal of Action Research, 3(1-2), 168-189.

Vickers, M.H., & Parris, M.A (2007). “Your job no longer exists!”: From experiences of alienation to expectations of resilience – A phenomenological study. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 19(2), 113-125.

Vickers, M.H. (2007). Autoethnography and sensemaking: A story of bullying in the workplace. Culture and Organization, Special Issue: Autoethnography and Organisations, 13(3), 223-237.

George, A., Vickers, M.H., Wilkes, L., & Barton, B. (2006). Chronic grief: Experiences of working parents of children with chronic illness. Contemporary Nurse, 23(2), 228-242.

Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M.H., Jackson, D., & Wilkes, L. (2006). “Like wolves in a pack”: Stories of predatory alliances of bullies in nursing. Journal of Management and Organisation, 12(3), 235-251.

Vickers, M.H. (2006). Towards employee wellness: Rethinking bullying paradoxes and masks. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 18(4), 267-281.

Vickers, M.H. (2006). A guide to grief in public administration. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 28(2), 245-261.

Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M.H., Jackson, D., & Wilkes, L. (2006). “They stand you in a corner; you are not to speak”: Nurses tell of abusive indoctrination in work teams dominated by bullies. Contemporary Nurse, 21(2), 228-238.

Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M.H, Jackson, D., & Wilkes, L. (2006). Workplace bullying in nursing: Towards a more critical organisational perspective. Nursing Inquiry, 13(2), 118-126.

Vickers, M.H. (2006). Writing what’s relevant: Workplace incivility in public administration – A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Administrative Theory & Praxis, 28(1), 69-88.

Hutchinson, M., Vickers, M.H., Jackson, D., & Wilkes, L. (2005). "I'm gonna do what I wanna do!": Organisational change as a vehicle for bullies. Health Care Management Review, 30(4), 331-338.

Vickers, M.H. (2005). Action research to improve the human condition: An "insider-outsider", an emergent research design, an actionable knowledge outcome. The International Journal of Action Research, 1(2), 190-218.

Vickers, M.H. (2005). Bounded grief at work: Working and caring for children with chronic illness. Illness, Crisis and Loss, 13(3), 201-218.

Vickers, M.H. (2005). Working and caring for children with chronic illness: Stories of disconnection, cruelty, and "Clayton's support". The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 1(4), 37-49.

Vickers, M.H., & Parris, M.A. (2005). Towards ending the silence: Working women as carers of children with chronic illness/disability. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 17(2), 91-108.

Parris, M.A., & Vickers, M.H. (2005). Working in teams: The influence of rhetoric: From sensemaking to sadness. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 27(2), 277-300.

Vickers, M.H. (2005). Illness, work and organisation: Postmodern perspectives, antenarratives and chaos narratives for the reinstatement of voice. Tamara: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organisation Science, 3(2), pp. 1-15.

Vickers, M.H. (2004). The traumatized worker: A concern for employers and employees. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Introduction to Special Issue: The Traumatised Worker, 16(3), 113-116.

Perrone, J., & Vickers, M.H. (2004). Emotions as strategic game in a hostile workplace: An exemplar case study. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Special Issue: The Traumatised Worker, 16(3), 167-178.

Vickers, M.H., Parris, M., & Bailey, J. (2004). Working mothers of children with chronic illness: Narratives of working and caring. Australian Journal of Early Childhood, Special Issue: Chronic Illness, 20(1), 39-44.

Hendricks, J. J., & Vickers, M.H. (2003). Symposium: The role of the theorist in facilitating voice. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 25(4), 457-462.

Vickers, M.H. (2003). Chaos narratives to reinstate the voice of a survivor of mental illness: A (partial) life story. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 25(4), 513-528.

Vickers, M.H. (2003). Expectations of consistency in organizational life: Stories of inconsistency from people with unseen chronic illness. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 15(2), 85-98.

Perrone, L., & Vickers, M.H. (2003). Life after graduation as "a very uncomfortable world": An Australian case study. Education & Training, 45(2), 69-78.

Vickers, M.H. (2002). Researchers as storytellers: Writing from the edge - And without a safety net. Qualitative Inquiry, 8(5), 608-621.

Vickers, M.H. (2002). "People first - always!": Values rhetoric to enhance betrayal - A downsizing case study. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 14(2), 207-217.

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Engagement Interests

• Chair, Board of Directors, Independent Living Centre, NSW; Non-Executive Director since June 2006.
• Editor-in-Chief of the international Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, published by Springer, New York.
• International Editorial/Advisory Boards: Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS); Qualitative Research in Organisations and Management: An International Journal (QROM); International Journal of Action Research (IJAR); Administrative Theory and Praxis (ATP); First Person: Section of Organization Management Journal (OMJ).
• Journal Review Panel Memberships: Illness, Crisis and Loss; The Leadership Quarterly; Organizational Research Methods.
• Journal Reviewer for: Journal of Organisations and Management (JMO), Contemporary Nurse, Academy of Management Review, International Journal of Conflict Management, Australian Review of Public Affairs, Qualitative Inquiry, Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (JANZAM), Journal of Public Administration, International Journal of Critical Psychology, Public Administration Review
• Special Issue Editor for: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Administrative Theory and Praxis

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